“When was life supposed to start?”
In celebration of Joachim Trier’s critically acclaimed new film Sentimental Value, a retrospective on his seminal Oslo Trilogy Many great film directors question through art the meaning of life, one’s purpose, and other pressing existential thoughts and doubts that’s plagued us mere mortals since time immemorial. The “coming-of-age” film in particular has been a go-to…
Mirror World
The point is that on either side of the reflective glass, we are not having disagreements about differing interpretations of reality – we are having disagreements about who is in reality and who is in a simulation. Naomi Klein A great quote from the 2023 book Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, written by…
The Adventure
As America continues to crumble in 2025, the vast majority appears to idly stick their fingers in their ears or escape to the algorithmic safety of social media to assuage their fears, or conversely to confirm them. I’ve been trying to calm my foreboding dread by returning to my love of reading and cinema. I…
Let me be frank 